About

Simha Himakuntala is a Senior Instrumentation, Control Systems, and OT Cybersecurity Engineer based in Texas, USA. He brings over 18 years of global EPCM experience across the oil and gas, petrochemical, advanced materials manufacturing, and federal research and development sectors.

 He currently works as an at Honeywell, where he supports large-scale industrial facilities with control system integration, cybersecurity patch management, system upgrades, and platform migrations.

Suresh has held several academic appointments. He serves as an Honorary Professor at Amity University (India), was an Adjunct Professor in Utilities Engineering at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and is a part-time faculty member at the School of Innovative Technologies & Engineering at the University of Technology, Republic of Mauritius. He also contributes as an External Evaluator to the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago.

 Simha’s technical expertise includes safety instrumented systems (ISA-84 / IEC 61511), smart instrumentation, industrial automation, and secure IT/OT convergence in alignment with ISA/IEC 62443 standards. He is an active contributor to the engineering profession through his involvement with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK) and the International Society of Automation (ISA). His professional interests focus on the practical and ethical integration of AI and data-driven technologies into safety-critical cyber-physical systems.

Suresh has authored more than 50 conference papers, book chapters, and magazine articles, along with 25 Scopus-indexed journal publications covering a range of technical and managerial topics. He has presented at international conferences in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other countries. He serves as a reviewer for leading academic publishers including Springer, Emerald, and Elsevier. His areas of expertise include renewable energy, asset management, transmission and distribution, energy efficiency, energy conservation, and professional training.